Growth Hub supports thousands of businesses across the last 12 months
More than 2,800 businesses across the region received support to help them develop from the Humber Business Growth Hub last year.
This brings the total number of businesses supported by the scheme to 9,342 since the Growth Hub was established by the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) in 2014.
This business support comes in ‘light’, ‘medium’ and ‘high’ intensity assistance, with some businesses receiving over 12 hours of dedicated one-to-one advisor support to help with their growth plans. Delivered through a network
Making Tax Digital – Deadline approaching
The deadline for submitting your first VAT return under Making Tax
Digital for VAT will soon be here.
Make sure you have the right software and signed up for Making Tax
Digital for VAT. Remember to allow at least 72 hours before your VAT return is
due or 7 days if you pay by direct debit.
The webinar, video and HMRC’s Online Customer Forum will give you more help. (details below).
Making Tax Digital for VAT: This
webinar covers digital record keeping, signing up for Making Tax Digital
Young inventors urged to develop technology for a changing world – from climate change to healthy ageing
Young entrepreneurs are being challenged to develop the technology of the future – from measuring air pollution to helping everyone stay healthy as they get older.
£1 million competition urges entrepreneurs to create apps to seize business opportunities of becoming greener, ageing populations, cleaning up transport and the data revolutionprototypes to undergo Dragon’s Den-style scrutiny for chance to win £10,000 prize for their schoolstudents to get chance to work with industry mentors to develop their products
Young entrepreneurs are being
Humber LEP Annual Review 2018-19
Almost 6,000 new jobs have now been created through the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership’s joint investment schemes with partner organisations – with almost 3,000 new jobs to follow.
These figures have been released through the Humber LEP’s annual review, which was unveiled today at its Annual Business Summit at DoubleTree by Hilton Forest Pines Hotel in Broughton, Scunthorpe.
A total of 5,811 new direct jobs have been created, with 2,879 new direct jobs to come in the near future. When combined with
The Pensions Regulator Business Compliance Checks
In the coming weeks, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) will be
targeting their new wave of compliance checks at employers across the UK who
are suspected to be non-compliant with their automatic enrolment duties.
Employers are being warned that if they are breaking the
law, they may be inspected which could lead to financial penalty or court
action. TPR’s Director of Automatic Enrolment, Darren Ryder, said: “We know
that most employers are doing the right thing for their staff, however, there
are a small minority who persistently
NEW FUND AIMS TO LINK 300 TALENTED PHYSICS STUDENTS WITH REGION’S HI-TECH BUSINESS SECTOR
The University of Hull has been
awarded £490,000 for a project that will create 300 internship and work
experience opportunities for physics students across the region while also
allowing hi-tech businesses to access a pool of new talent.
The money is part of a £5.6m funding pot
from the Office for Students that aims to boost opportunities for graduates who seek work
close to home.
The University of Hull’s Department of Physics
is leading the universities of Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield and York under the White Rose
Industrial
Funding is available for upskilling your Hull workforce
Skills For Growth is a Hull City Council initiative which aims to help local businesses use workforce skills interventions to raise their productivity and profitability via a grant of 50% of the cost of trainingup to a maximum of £1,000
Training subsidies are available for upskilling staff to a maximum of £1000 or 50%of the cost of training whichever is the lower
Eligibility will be based on a skills needs assessment which will identify elements of training which have the potential to raise
Royal Academy of Engineering SME Leaders Programme
Would you like to be part of the next cohort of promising
leaders of high growth engineering and technology companies run by the Royal
Academy of Engineering?
This six-month programme is designed to support you to
develop the leadership skills needed to scale your business.
Applications close Monday 3 June 2019.
What is on offer:
Grant of up to £10,000 to fund leadership
training courses of your choiceMasterclasses and workshops delivered by senior
business leadersProvision of an experienced business mentorOne-to-one personal leadership coachingAccess to the Taylor Centre, our Central
Humber Business Week 2019 Events
Humber Business Week is back for 2019 and boasts an exciting calendar of events across the Humber region, of which Humber LEP is proud to be an official partner.
Taking place this year between Monday, 3rd June and Friday, 7th June, it includes high-profile keynote speakers, expos, conferences, workshops, tours, celebration receptions – and of course the odd networking breakfast and lunch – providing an opportunity for companies of all sizes to acquire new knowledge, gain a better understanding and insights into
EU, EEA and Swiss citizens working in the UK in 2019 and 2020 after Brexit
If you employ EU, EEA or Swiss citizens (hereafter referred to as EU citizens) and want to understand how leaving the EU will affect your business and what you can to do to get ready, this information from DEFRA will signpost you to the most up-to-date information.
What you need
to know:
EU
citizens can continue to come to the UK for work in 2019 and 2020, after the UK
leaves the EU.
If
the UK does not reach a deal with the EU before withdrawing from